A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.
Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.
I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.